Commit ff1fe5e0 authored Mar 07, 2018 by Paul E. McKenney Committed by Ingo Molnar Mar 10, 2018

tools/memory-model: Add documentation of new litmus test

The litmus-tests/README file lacks any mention of the new litmus test
ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus.  This commit therefore
adds a description of this test.

Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520443660-16858-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent d095c12c

tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
		order of a pair of writes, where each write is to a different
		variable by a different process?

		ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
		Tests whether the ordering provided by a lock-protected S
		litmus test is visible to an external process whose accesses are
		separated by smp_mb(). This addition of an external process to
		S is otherwise known as ISA2.

		ISA2+poonceonces.litmus
		As below, but with store-release replaced with WRITE_ONCE()
		and load-acquire replaced with READ_ONCE().

Admin message